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10 December 2015

'Model' ship recycling facility close to start-up in Spain:

Spain: It has taken
him three years of preparation and negotiating, and now he has all the
necessary permits. In June 2016, Antonio Barredo of DDR Vessels will open a
ship recycling facility in the northern Spanish port of Gijón, the entrepreneur
told Recycling International during the 3rd Ship Recycling Summit this week in
Brussels.

'Now that we
recently have got the green light, we can move on with the project and final
construction', he said. Since 2012 Barredo has been working on the development
of the yard which is located on a disused bulk handling facility at the port of
Gijón. Once completed, the plant is claimed to comply with 'all EU Ship
Recycling Regulations and Hongkong Convention standards and beyond'.

Some Euro 3 million
Euro has been invested in the facility. Barredo expects to process some 50 000
tonnes of scrap per year coming from small and midsized (navy) vessels. With
the scrap DDR will supply the nearby steel mill of both ArcelorMittal Gijón and
steel factories in the industrial heartland around Bilbao.

According to
Barredo, the facility is to become 'a model to follow' for full
decontamination, separation, treatment and recycling of vessels and vessel’s
residues.

A detailed review
of the Ship Recycling Summit will be featured in Recycling International's
January/February 2016 issue.